Category: Podcast

Episode 30 – Has your organization been making progress on its continuous improvement journey, only to find things starting to stall? Is your team hesitant to share ideas, or are your lean or process improvement initiatives viewed mainly as cost-cutting measures rather than a comprehensive strategy for long-term success? Perhaps you’ve been focusing on just one side of the path of excellence—improvement processes and tools—while overlooking a critical component: respect for people.

Episode 27 – Ever felt like your meetings or workshops aren’t moving the needle? How would you like to facilitate your next work session with confidence and ensure that your leaders are leaving motivated, aligned, and action-oriented? Whether you’re a continuous improvement practitioner, consultant, manager, or executive—facilitation is a crucial skill to master to become a transformational change leader.

Episode 26 – Want to inspire action in your presentations and transform your message from boring to unforgettable? The secret: it’s not data and facts that create impact — it’s your stories. As humans, we’re wired to remember and respond to stories because they connect with our emotions and drive our decisions.

Episode 25 – Do you and your leadership team feel burdened by solving all the problems that get in the way of achieving the results your organization needs You’re not alone. This is the crux of the leadership challenge: transitioning from being the primary problem-solver to a transformational leader who creates the conditions for their people to achieve results. 

Episode 24 – If you’re passionate about continuous improvement, quality, or operational excellence, chances are Dr. W. Edwards Deming has shaped your journey—even if you haven’t realized it yet. But do you know how this influence came about and the profound impact Deming’s management theories have had on shaping quality and improvement approaches such as Lean, Agile, and DevOps?

Episode 23 – What does “winning” mean to you as a leader? And what is your leadership role in creating a winning strategy and organizational culture? According to Billy Ray Taylor, CEO and President at LinkedXL and former Goodyear Tire executive, winning is not only about defining a clear strategy and aligning on the goals and metrics, but engaging your team members and defining the actions to get there.

Episode 22 – Have you ever paused to reflect on the critical moments of your life and realized their impact on your own trajectory and others’ lives? In this special episode of Chain of Learning, I welcome back Isao Yoshino as we celebrate our decade-long partnership and the anniversary of our book “Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn.”

Episode 21 – Today’s guest has influenced tens of thousands of leaders worldwide, and he’s the subject and inspiration for my book, Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn. Now, he’s here to share his insights on learning to lead and Leading to Learn® and what it means to be part of a Chain of Learning®. I’m thrilled to welcome Isao Yoshino, 40-year Toyota leader, to the show.

Episode 20 – Have you ever received blank stares from leaders when you’ve advocated that they adopt an improvement method or tool you know will help them? Perhaps the problem is not your idea but rather that you aren’t communicating in a way that connects these concepts with the business outcomes they need or in language that they understand.

Episode 19 – Are you struggling to get your senior team on board with your vision for change, to get buy-in for a new initiative, or to get leaders to sign on to your services as a coach or consultant? Good news. Leading through influence and persuasion can make this happen.